Later, a group calling itself the Union of Students Advocating for the Preservation of Tedious Paperwork claimed responsibility for the fire alarms in a statement delivered anonymously to Spectator, which called the protest "symbolic, harmless, [and] permissible" and called the strike's organizers "aspiring bureaucrats."

"We pulled fire alarms on campus to disrupt the scripting of both activism and student life," the statement said. "No one should be willing to sit idly in the face of war, nor should they be willing to act as mere extras in a farcical theatre of resistance."

I just read the Iran editorial. that kid should be ashamed to have written such an awfully argued and hackneyed editorial. and BWOG should be ashamed for having linked to it. the kid is unthinkingly spouting back talking points in a manner that defies logic and basic common sense.